Fallen Quotes
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The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.
Craig Venter -
Having fallen from the eternal, the Evil One's desires are endless, insatiable. Having fallen from pure Being, he is driven by the desire to possess, to fill his emptiness. But the problem is insoluble, always. He is compelled to have and to hold, to possess and consume, and nothing else. All he takes, he destroys.
Denis de Rougemont
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There is no such thing as a fallen woman - you just need to look for the man who pushed her.
Courtney Milan -
Fallen myths can instill venom.
Denis de Rougemont -
I've found that falling doesn't always leave you fallen for.
Andrew McMahon -
The whites have resolved to destroy our liberty and have therefore brought a force commensurate to their intentions. The Cape, after a proper resistance, has fallen into their hands, but the enemy found only a town and plain in ashes; the forts were blown up, and all was burnt.
Toussaint Louverture -
There are yawning gulfs into which large chunks of me have fallen. I do not always know where I am at present.
Joseph Heller -
Lilt pulled away. "I saw what he was doing, so I cleared a path for him. I helped him do it..." She shook her head, tears tracking the dust off her face, and turned to stare at the fallen tower. "Have we all gone mad to want this?
Scott Westerfeld
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I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.
William Shakespeare -
I would ask you to come in Khadi, for Khadi links you with the fallen and the down-trodden.
Mahatma Gandhi -
In terms of sexual orientation I don't really feel I've changed ... I'd been with men all my life, and I'd never fallen in love with a woman. But when I did, it didn't seem so strange. I'm just a woman in love with another woman.
Cynthia Nixon -
I had discovered that there was something more painful than falling in love with someone who hasn't fallen for you; hurting that person-hurting him and not being able to do anything about it.
Elizabeth Chandler -
The fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is when she's fallen out with her husband.
William Shakespeare -
Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who have fallen from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.
Hedda Hopper
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O Day after day we can't help growing older. Year after year spring can't help seeming younger. Come let's enjoy our winecup today, Nor pity the flowers fallen.
Wang Wei -
As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, then up to the ceiling and around the room, doing my best to keep my composure, then back to Jamie again. She smiled at me and I smiled at her and all I could do was wonder how I’d ever fallen in love with a girl like Jamie Sullivan.
Nicholas Sparks -
Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away / You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen.
Robert Frost -
Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, must fall out with men too.
William Shakespeare -
Tin Machine had fallen on the grenade, gotten rid of the "Phil Collins-Tina Turner-1980s-Let's Dance-vibe" that he was uncomfortable with, and basically re-booted the Bowie (David Bowie) career system. All in all, it was fun, nobody died, and it was an education in diving into the deep end of the pool.
Reeves Gabrels -
Only by knowing how far we have fallen will we understand what it is to rise again.
Alexander C. Irvine
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A raised weight can produce work, but in doing so it must necessarily sink from its height, and, when it has fallen as deep as it can fall, its gravity remains as before, but it can no longer do work.
Hermann von Helmholtz -
The mouse had fallen in with evil cats.
Dante Alighieri -
It is thought that the virus is a degeneration from a more complex life form. It may at one time have been capable of independent life. Now has fallen to the borderline between living and dead matter. It can exhibit living qualities only in a host, by using the life of another-the renunciation of life itself, a falling towards inorganic, inflexible machine, towards dead matter
William S. Burroughs -
His face reminded her of an open book that's fallen into a puddle.
Elizabeth Hay